Crib.



J. F. DAILY.

CRIB.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6, 1915. 1,21 9,262. Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

UNITED s'rA'rEs PATENT omen.

JOSEPH 1'. DAILY, 01 8'1. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A SSIGNOR TO SMITH & DAVIS MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF CRIB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 191 '7.

application filed December 8, 1915. Serial No. 85,196.

. citizen of the United States, and a resident in the appended claims.

of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cribs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to cribs having vertically sliding sides; and it consists in an improved trip or latch for holding the crib side in raised position.

The object of the invention is a self-locking trip or latch for holdin up the crib side wh1ch can-be released by t e toe to drop the crib side. Further objects of the invention are simplicity of construction, and the elimination of springs for holding the parts in working position.

What the invention consists in is more fully set forth in the following description of the device shown in the accompan ing drawings, and is more particularly de ned In the drawings, wherein the same reference characters are used to designate like parts in the several views,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a crib embodymg the invention, showing the crib side in raised position in full lines and in lowered position in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the side rail of the crib and bottom rail of the crib side, on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, showing the latch in normal position in full lines and in unlocking position in dotted lines; and

Fig. 3 1s a similar cross-section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings, the invention is applied to a metal crib having tubular corner lposts 11 connected byan angle iron side rai 12. The side rail 12 is arranged with the horizontal leg uppermost and the vertical --leg on the outside. The crib side 13 consists of top and bottom rails connected byvertical rods, the ends of the top and bottom rails .being provided with eyes 14 which slide on vertical guide rods 15 attached to the corner posts '11. Atthe lower ends of the guide rods 15 are springs 16 to cushion the sliding side 13 at the bottom of its fall when it is released from its normal raised position.

The locking latch bar 17 is mounted for stem portion on the outer face of sai oscillation in clips 18, which are arranged on the outer side of the angle bar 12, and project through slots in its vertical leg, and are secured thereto on its inner side by means of screws 19, as shown in Fig. 3. The ends of the latch bar 17 are bent outwardly to form latches 20 upon the upper sides of which the lower rail of the crib side 13 rests inits normal raised position. The middle of the latch bar is provided with a crank 21 which hangs straight down in normal position of the latch bar, but which may.

- and embodies no springs or small IIIOVHIE parts which might cause trouble throug breaking or jamming. The invention is not restricted to the precise forms and arrangement of the parts shown inthe drawings.

I claim the following as my invention: 1. In combination in a device of the 'char- ,acter described, an an le bar side rail having a'slot in its vertlcal leg, and a sheet constitutmg a journal bearing arranged on the outer face of said vertical leg, and a rojecting through said slot and bent para el to the inner face of said vertical leg and secured thereto.

2. In combination in a device of the character described, an angle bar side rail havin .a slot in its vertical leg near the angle, an

a sheet metal clip having one end circularly bent to form a journal bearing, the extremity of which rests on the top of said side rail with the! bent bearin portion disposed vertical le said clip having a stem portion ro wting through said slot and bent paral el to the inner face of said vertical leg and secured thereto.

. Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this fourth 

